Direction & Production

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439169063Author Kris MalkiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

In the years between 1941 and 1965, Lance Comfort made some of the most entertaining films in Britain. There was the striking success of his second feature as director, Hatter's Castle (1941) and when he returned to this melodramatic vein in 1945 he made...

The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term "art film" and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In this pioneering book, Rochona Majumdar examines key...

Since his first feature movie, She's Gotta Have It (1986), gave him critical and commercial success, Spike Lee has challenged audiences with one controversial film after another, sparking debates about race, sex, American politics and film production,...

Great visual storytelling is possible on a minimal budget, but you have to spend a lot of energy thinking and planning. In Understanding Design in Film Production, author Barbara Freedman Doyle demonstrates how to use production design, cinematography,...

Steven Spielberg has become a brand name and a force that extends far beyond the movie screen. Phrases like ""phone home"" and the music score from Jaws are now part of our cultural script, appearing in commercials, comedy routines, and common...

Sound is half the picture, and since the 1960s, film sound not only has rivaled the innovative imagery of contemporary Hollywood cinema, but in some ways has surpassed it in status and privilege because of the emergence of sound design. This in-depth...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781471721342Author Matt ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

In 1973, early in their careers, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro collaborated for the first time. Over the next few decades, they worked together on seven more movies, many of which brought them both acclaim and awards. And while successful director...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967247Author Philip HaywardFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & CoWeight(grams) 399g

This retrospective on the career of Academy Award-winning production designer Richard Sylbert takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential films of the past fifty years. The Manchurian Candidate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The...

Richard Attenborough's film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux's book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker. Concentrating on his work behind the camera, she explores his initial role as a...

Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismaki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship. This international collection of original essays aims to redress such neglect by assembling diverse...

Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. It provides a lean introductory survey of U.S. cinema censorship from the pre-Code years and classic studio system Golden Age-in which film censorship...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615951669Author John William HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint John HeathPublisher John HeathWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578033440Author Nicholas GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Platinum Eagle PublishingPublisher Platinum Eagle PublishingWeight(grams)...

Let us rejoice in the genius that is Kevin Smith! This fun and photo-filled biography celebrates the life, films, and fans of the director responsible for such indie cult classics as Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma. Movie-industry veteran David...

A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time. Author...

A great deal of storytelling in film and television involves narratives that include sexual situations and nudity. The increased amount of on-line and streaming content outlets has in turn increased the number of narratives that involve these once-taboo...

Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West, theatre vs. performance - with reference to genealogies...

The films of Thorold Dickinson (1903-1984), now being rediscovered, engage with major issues including national identity, the post-colonial world, and political violence - and they also show a rare mastery of style, a thrilling eroticism, a preoccupation...

Arthur Penn - director of The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man - was at the height of his career when Robin Wood's analysis of the American director was originally published in 1969. Although Wood then considered...

This text investigates and analyzes Soviet cinema of "the thaw", from the aftermath of Stalin's death in 1953 to the late 1960s, during Khruschev's rule. Josephine Woll explains how Soviet industry and film-makers strove to satisfy audiences' hunger for...

Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years, featuring a masked master criminal-part Fantomas, part James Bond-and his elegant companion Eva Kant. The film partially reinvents the...

Media servers have established themselves as the dominant video playback tool for live events; however, the practice of delivering content to these systems and the structure of the media operations team is still evolving. This book outlines a workflow...

In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its final product, less tangible; and Hollywood has adopted...

Some thirty years ago filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard told critic Gene Youngblood, I am trying to change the world. He has pursued his revolution in works ranging from the explosive Breathless to the eloquent Contempt to the controversial Hail Mary and the...

Twelve years ago, Amores Perros erupted in the cinemas across the world and announced the arrival of Mexican film-makers. The film-makers profiled in that book have now come of age and have made a decisive impact on the international cinema scene The...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039144316Author Dean GoodineFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

British filmmaker Mike Leigh began his career in the 1970s as a playwright and theater director. Later he made a number of films of varying lengths for British television and then moved into feature film production. Although well established in the U. K...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101664Author Norman LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsSeries LimelightWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087853680Author Alex FerrariFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ifh BooksPublisher Ifh BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America's...

What does a movie producer actually do for a living? Is 'producing' any more than writing cheques and smoking fat cigars? Helen de Winter, herself an intrepid young producer, discovers a job that requires the combined skills of a wheeler-dealer, a...

The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684857084Author Peter BiskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 487g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903364895Author John OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 15mm

The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema provides a timely and expansive overview of Japanese cinema today, through cutting-edge scholarship that reflects the hybridity of approaches defining the field. The volume's twenty-one chapters represent work by...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438486420Author Lindsay ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York PressSeries...

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision people must make between being sexualized or being invisible-now in paperback In Commute, we follow author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and...